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, 1887-12-10

"Ferrets are not common in this coun-
try and we AVE hard work to introduce
them, " said the first importer and largest
breeder of ferrets in New York to a re-
porter.
''In England hunting with ferrets is a
popular sport, and every country gentle
man has several pairs trained to come at
his call"
what is the cost of a ferret?''
THAT depends principally on their
age. Their average life is twelve years
and the average price per pair $25. We
generally sell them outright, but are
glad to buy them back when the pur-
chaser is through using them. Occasion
ally we make contracts to keep a mill or
a ship free from rats at 30 much a
year, running the ferrets as occasion re-
quires.
There is a curious superstition regard
ing ferrets. 1t ascribes to them the
power Of curing ~whooping cough. l
have sometimes had as many as twenty
people in here iE n single day to take adj
vantage of the little creatures supposed
miraculous power. The people bring
pans Of milk and bits of food. This they
allow the ferrets to partake of, carrying
away the remainder, firmly convinced
that there has been impaired to the sub
stance an infallible remedial virtue. -
New York Evening Sun.
, 1887-12-10

A st, Louis physician Y Every time
l see one of the new style of houses in
the course of erection 1 feel like telling
the owner 10 take out the small windows
and have more light. l nave entered my
protest many a time against small win
dows. Let there be light is the warning
of every physician. 1t is absolutely nee
essary to health that a house be well
lighted, and n great deal Of the sickness
of a city is to be attributed to dark rooms.
1t may be called refinement for a woman
to be pale and thin, but it renders her
unfit to bear the burdens of life and pow
erless to resist disease. A plant cannot
grow in n dark place, and why should a
human being? Children brought up in
these modern houses, with their small
windows and dark rooms, become un-
healthy and puny. Style is to blame for
this evil. Every house should have as
much sunlight as possibh.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
, 1887-12-10

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-The market to-
day was very dull except for a few spec
ialties and was very heavy in the early
trading, though a better tone was after
ward developed and the list showed more
strength than has been seen previously
during the week. The close was dull but
firm and close to best prices.
Governments dull and steady. Min
ing shares dull. Money 1 per cent.
Petroleum was strong; opening at
76: highest, 77b; lowest, 10; closing, ~.
Sales, l.043,0 OO. barrels.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's, ll9; American Express,
lOS; Canada Pacific, 57!; Canada South
ern, $50; Central Pacific, 36E; Burlington,
l27; Delaware, Lackawanna, l29; Dem
yer 4 Rio Grandc, 22t; Erie, %; Lake
Shore, 944; Louisville & Nashville. OH;
Michigan Central, 500; Kansas & Texas,
Is; New York Central. 1881; Northern
Pacific, 22g; preferred. AGA; Northwest
ern, l07; Oregon Improvement. 463;
Navigation. So; Transcontinental, l9i;
Pacific Mail. 36S; Panama, -; Rock
Island, 100; Milwaukee & st. Paul,
75f; Reading, 67s; Texas Pacific, 25;
press, 65; Fargo, 29; Western Union, TT
CHICAGO, Dec. .. -Cattle-Receipts.
1000; market steady: stockers. 81. $50
3 90; natives, 81. 7O95.GO; Texas cows,
j .20(6l. 90.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; market steady;
Western, 81 95; feeders, $40.
EWheat-Market woaI and lower. Cash,
II 9 lG; January 7S 3 l6; May IS > l6.
, 1887-12-10
DEATH oE EMPEROR PAUL.
Assassination or tho Russian Gar ~ .
Band of Conspirators.

4 s,ass' nation or tho Russian Gar ~ .
Band Of Conspirators.
The conspirators first met and drank
pretty deep into the night, so that none
IF them were really sober when they APP
rhavei before Paul. They had already
murdered the sentry in the passage, and,
Oh finding that the door of the cmperor's
room offered some resistance, Pahlen
broke it open. lie had in his hand when
he did 50 a snuff box, given him by Paul
only n few days previously, when the en-
perez mad spoken to him of n conspiracy
on foot, and when Pahlen had treasured
him BY asking how that could be? FIR
il there We're such a thing | should he
rurc to nave heard of it," Now, the
half naked car confronted Pahlcn with
the angry exclamation, What, you there,
Pahlen!' Beningsen then stepped for
ward, acting as spokesman for the rest,
and told the emperor that he must i.b-
dictate.
Up to this moment, thanks to the COM
plicity OF the officer on duty at the foot
of the staircase. the co~nspirators had had
it all their own way; but now a noise
frightened them and made them fear that
a rescue was being attempted. 1t really
came from the empress rooms. She,
hearing the scufle, ran out and swooned
at the back OF Paul's door. An attend
ant offered n glass Of water, but the
Cossack on guard in her passage,
fearing ~treachery also in this case,
dashed down the glass, and ran to
fill another from a source which
lie knew was Imprisoned. Meanwhile to
the frenzy of their deep potations tho
couspirators now added the stimulant of
fear. Paul must die; he must not be
rescued, must not survive to tell who had
threatened him. nor even to plot, in an
enforced confinement, vengeance on
those who had robbed him of power. He
had already tested the trap door, and Oh
finding il locked had given way to a
paroXysm of terror and fury.
Then it was that the armed men closed
in upon him; the brothers Zubow. 10
eager for revenge being the keenest, and
Nicholas Zubow striking the first blow
with a chair. This Frustrated him. The
sash of Pahlen seemed to be the weapon
most suitable for their purpose, namely.
to inflict a violent death which should
leave few traces of violence, and which
might be ascribed to a fit. The Cour-
lander's sash was tied around the EN-.
peror's neck, and then the officer on
guard "a Russian pur song noticed a
strange instance of the divinity which. in
the native Russian breast, does hedge in
the white car. All the Russians fell
back, and as Beningsen pulled the ends
of the scarf to strangulation they said TO
each other aside and in Russian, 'It's n
dogs trick-better let the German dog
do it. Edinburgh Review.
, 1887-12-10

Next to the possession of wealth in in
convenience is the reputation of having
it. A friend tells with a good deal of
drollery how he has suffered this summer
from the undeserved fame of fortune.
"You know" he says ''that the KS
went abroad in June, and they offered us
the use of their cottages at Wareview for
the summer. OF course we were delighted,
and If l hadn't made a mismove in the
first place we should nave had a beauti-
full time. Such a trifling thing, too. 1t
was only buying a dollars worth of
postage stamps at the village postoffice,
but it came very near spelling our whole
summer OF course he was asked to ex-
plain, and did SO by saying that in a place
where people bought a single stamp for a
letter after the epistle was written, the
purchase of fifty stamps at once took on
all the magnitude of a magnificent finan-
cial transaction. The purchaser was from
that moment regarded as a man of
enormous wealth. He was charged ex-
travagantly for everything, his steps were
haunted by committees soliciting sub
scriptions for the church and charity, and
he was, in a word, subjected to all the
annoyance of being wealthy without the
satisfaction of having the reality of which
this was the unpleasant shadow. "And
hereafter, " he concluded, 81 shall never
buy more than a single stamp in the
country" y Boston Cor. Providence
Journal,
, 1887-12-10
Description of n Naval Battle.

Those who have read the narrative of
the battle between the Guerrero and the
Constitution during the war of 1919 re-
member hat the American frigate, al
though it received three broadsides from
the British man-of-war, did not fire until
she had come to close quarters. Then
her fire was so rapid that in a few min
utes the British ship struck her colors.
The story of the capture, as spoken by a
Frenchman speaking broken English,
sets forth the main points of the engage
ment:
You see, / vas come from Marseilles
with sheepload vine and cognac; 1 vas go
to re Levant trade. By'm-by Capitaine
Dacre he come With Eat Guerrero, and
he tax my sheep; and he TAX all my
i an my cognac in he's sheep; me
n my crew he tax prisoners an he
burn my sheep.
pretty 500 he say: 'Ah, Capitaine
Dufosse, 1 go look now TO Eat Yankee
frigate, re Constitution Pretty soon he
see Eat sheep. 'Ah, Capitaine Dufnsse,'
he say, I'm goin' TAX Eat sheep in
twenty minutes!'
Ven he come up with her he give Won
broadside; br-r-r-r-r-re! Eat Yankee he
say Messing; br-r-r-r-r-re! &c other broad
side. Re Yankee he no say messing!
'Tonnere!' 1 say, what is zat2'
Br-r-r.r-r-re! from re Guerrero. Eat
Yankee he no say Messing.
pretty o when he came close
br-r-r-r-r.rel br-r-r-r-r-rel br-r-r-r-r-reI
81 70 below. After avile l come on
de deck. Capitaine Dacre vas Civ his
sword to Capitaine Hull!
Il say, 'Ah, ha, Capitaine Dacre! You
say you goin' tax Eat Yankee frigate in
twenty minutes! He TAX you in TAM"
Youths Companion.
, 1887-12-10

The wife of Gen. Crook, the Indian
fighter, is regarded as n public benefactor
by the people of Arizona. 1t came about
i'll this way: She was Il aveling across
the territory by rail several years ago.
Her lunches had been provided by a city
caterer, and the most striking feature
of them was the abundance of water
crosses. There were altogether too many
crosses to suit Mrs. Crooks taste, and
accordingly she threw them out of the
window. But she did not dispose of
them huphazard. The country is crossed
by innumerable brooks, and il was only
in passing them that Mrs. Crook threw
out the superfluous crosses. they took
root on the spots where they fell, and
multiplied with marvellous rapicity. The
result is that today this delicate appetizer
is to be found in almost all parts of the
territory, where before Mrs. Crooks
chance sowing it was entirely unknown.
-Courier-Journal
, 1887-12-10

Apropos of Quaker bonnets, l was told
last year that some antiquarian, wishing
to obtain a complete dress belonging to
this sect, asked the younger member of
an old Friend family for some of their
grandparents garments. One can hardly
imagine the horror inspired by the an
swer: ''Oh, you can have all the broad
brimmed hats, but there are no bonnets
left, as we took Off the silk, and used
them as footlight shades in our theatri-
Gals last holidays. l am so sorry, but
they did c~apitally!" Oh, that the de-
scendants Of the old Quaker stock should
have SO little reverence left for the mem
DRY of their ancestors!-Cassell' Family
MapnZinp.
, 1887-12-10

IT WoN'T BAKE BREAD.-In other
words, Hoods ~Sarsaparilla will not do
impossibilities. Its proprietors tell plain
ly what it has done, submit proofs from
sources of unquestioned reliability, and
ask you frankly if you are suffering from
n disease or affection caused or pro-
NOTED by impure blood or low state of the
system, to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. The
experience of others is sufficient assurance
that you will not be disappointed in the
result.
, 1887-12-10

y very ingenious device is now gener-
ally adopted by druggists to prevent the
frequent mistakes which occur at night
in administering a dangerous medicine
for a simple one This is entirely OBJ
waited by putting up prescriptions con-
tanning powerful remedies or poisonous
drugs in rough bottles IS prickly as the
coat of a gherkin. Any one rising in the
dark is at once warned of his danger.
Many lives have already been saved by
this simple contrivance.--Globe-Dem Demo-
crnt
, 1887-12-10

Dear Bro. Meek, Ed. The Central
Methodist" Catlettsville, KY see In
the last Central that you want a sick
headache remedy. | suffered from sick
headache, almost from infancy, and tried
every remedy | could get, but never found
anything to do me good until | used
Simmons Liver Regulator. 1 feel for
anyone that suffers with that terrible dis
ease, and l hope you will give it a
trial.-C. S. Morris, Brownsville, W.
Va.
, 1887-12-10

The manufacture of bicycles and trey
cles is the latest development of German
competition with a hitherto specifically
English industry. The splendid roads Of
the Black Forest and Switzerland have
this year been more thronged than even
before with velocipedists. There is now
hardly a town in Germany without its
.velocipede club.-Public Opinion.
, 1887-12-10

There is no historical fact in the
world better established than that Amer
lea was discovered by Icejanders in tho
year A. D. 1901" VIZ ties Professor
Majunssun, of Cambridge university ir
England, and he adds thai there is not a
learned body in Europe that ever breathes
a doubt about it.-Chicago Times.
, 1887-12-10

French conversation" said Mr.. w.
c. Brownell, lis really conversation, and
is practiced for what it " and not to pass
away the time. 1t is made up of inter
ruptions, and is thus full of epigrams and
repartee, is artistic, not u%tilitarian, and
far freer than ours, and is o~utspoken
without being brutal. York Times.
, 1887-12-10

Il think, Mr.. Smith, " said n friend of
the family, that your poor wife looked
so lovely as she lay there at rest at last. ~
"Yes, replied the bereaved husband;
''Mary always did look well in white. :"
The Epoch.
, 1887-12-10
Wax Candles from Sugar Cane.

One more sign of economics of progress
is that it is contemplated to make wa1
candles out of sugar cane. 1t yielda
cerosin, which, has a high melting point.
New York Times.
, 1887-12-10
Address Registered Letters to:

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New Orleans. La.
REM G as%t ne R Bcasyssay q
and EIriy, trhO are IN charge Of The Drawings
- n guarantee NJ absolute fairness and infeOrifL
that NJ chances are al egtdi and NAT no one
can possibty dtrtIe phdt numbers iViN drdpO Il
Prize.
REuEuB Err that The payment of all
Prizes GUARANTEED by FOUR Ma
BANkA Of NeiD Orleans aud he
Tickets are signed bU the President of an
tngtLtuiiOu tNltOSe chartered rights are recognized
in The highest courts. therefore beirdre Of any
limitations or anonymous schemes.
, 1887-12-10

Letter heads, bill heads, and note heads
at the Leader Office.
, 1887-12-10
FERRIS MOVES HOUSES
O6 Fifteenth street

Engraving in all its branches Is done at
ZEHNER, BUEcHNER & Co.'s
, 1887-12-10
Our Specially
On Our DryG Goods Counters

We are showing out new and rare bar
gains each week. We save you money On
every purchase, but we can't save you as
much on SC. gingham as on II cloak that
some one else would charge you $1,000
more for than we do.
Mail orders promptly and carefully
filled. We strive in every way to make
your purchase Just as satisfactory as if
you were here.
g. O. ID.
We send goods to all parts of the State
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publican, and will keep you posted. The
, 1887-12-10

Nh oNN> OF the good things of this
ss0 life are s~orrowfully let
alone On account OF Dyspepsia. Acker's
Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at 25 and 30 cents. by
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-12-10
Health Preserving
0verooats for Everybody!

We exhibit this season the largest line n,
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We can fit any man in cotton or linen cord
Corduroy suits at lowest prices.
Winter Shoes and warm Caps In great variety
sv- Prices, Samples of Cloths. Catalogues.
etc, sent on application.
, 1887-12-10
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

RARV,S skin and Scalp preserved and beau
OhO1 tilted by C~UTICURA M~EDICATED
, 1887-12-10

Courtesy of Hyo. Arcl
, 1887-12-10

- We do hereby certify that zoe supervise The ar
rdnOeHeHtsfOr al he Monthtndnd SENT annual
hdt0tHgS o. ne LOIiStdId state Lottery Cum
pd1ty, aud IN person manage and control The
DrIt0tG0S hemSeiueS, and thai The san G are con-
Quoted ruth honesty, fairness, and in good Jduh
tOWdrd at parties, and zoe uutfortSe the Ohm
pdpy 10 use nus certificate, Dtlh Jucsimftes olour
rg"ntttres attached IN IT. entertainments"
, 1887-12-10
Commissioners.

We the undersigned Banks and Bankers Will
pay all prizes drawn In The Louisiana state
tiers
j. II. Ogicsby. Pres. Louisiana National Bank.
Pierre LanauN. Pres. State National Bank.
a Baldwin Pres. New Orleans National Bank.
Earl knhn. Prs rnlnn Nallnnnl Rank
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Mr. g, Fs Witten. of Edinburg, Mo-
assisted bylhiA bFethcr.sy.Ar. Witten.
of this city has invented a etalk cut,
ter that is greatly in advance of any.
thing Of the kind yet invented, 1t IA
very vigorously constructed, gathers
the stalks perfectly Glenn 1t matters
not in what tangled condition they
may be and cuts them up FROM four to
sixinches. and distributes them over
the ground. tits a double stalk cutter,
cutting two rows at the same timc
and will cut from ffteen to twenty
acres per day. All stalk cutters yet
manufactured cut the stalk on the
ground and Will not, work unless the
ground is In condition to- pillow.
While with the invention, the stalks
can be cut at any time which is a
very important item to farmers. This
machine wlllalso work successfully
in cotton ,stalks. Those gentlmen
have filed a caveat and will apply for
a patent soon. They expect to have
Eanumber manufactured for the fall
traie-Mo. E'c.s
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,sALE or IlHoRoUeHBREps.

s sAtthe sale ef thoroas9lbred tyearl.
ings of the Runnymede. and Cold,
steam breeding farms at Paris, KY,
Friday, thirty,seyen head sold for
$50, 400. among the salea being a bay
colt by Hindoo to Dryer Borthcru
for y, 900 and o bay colt by Long
fellow to L, Q, Appleby for $500
Atthe Elmwood sale, near Lexington,
KY, Saturday,forty.two head brought
a total of s54,620, The Dwycr Bro
theirs paid $500 for o bay by Virgil
dam Althea, and $4,000 for brown
FLY by Virgil, dam Ann Eietf, Chest
nut colt by imp: Glcneig, dam Florida,
by Virgil, TOD. b. Haggin. $4,000.
Chestnut colt BY imp. Prince Charlie,
dam Salina, BY Lexington, to same,
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RAISING PORK CHEApLY.


We need more grass and clover,
and less corn, upon which to make
our pork. More grass and clover
means cheaper growth and less
disease. just as the great corn and
and pork producing lands have been
developed, has swine disease sprung
up and increased, because our swine
are given q monotonous diet of dry,
oily food, Grass and clover are the
foodsofn nature. and the swine. harvest
them. They require little prepare.
ion of the ground for them, and no
cultivation. When pastured they
build up.rather than exhaustive land;
and 1t can not be successfully disput-
ed that they are essential factors in
the production of the cheapest pork.
Let the pigs farrowed in the spring
be put on grass andclover as soon as
they are fit tosbe graxcdsand kept on
them as long as they are palatable.
and the result will be a pig not fat,
but in good condition and thrifty,
that until fail has large, healthy
bones and muscle vigorous appetite
for corn. And then it may be fed
corn largely, for this will put fat on
the large frame the pasture has made,
and the hog is vigorous enough to
digest theco well; and If the hog
is fatted rapidly and marketed as soon
as fully fat, is the cheapest pork that
can be made-the cheapest, not count
ing loss from disease. But swine
plague rarely invades the pasture;
It's favo-ite place of appearance is In
the small lot, paved with cobs and
manure. The hog summered on grass
and clover is 80 vigorous that it rare
lily sickens when being fattened on
corn largely. but also other food, and
lin clean quarters pure water An,eri.
can .1gricalturistJor June.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-05-27

The question of who will represent
this district in Congress is agitating
agreat many people, and some are
disposed to ignore completely mat
ter of far greater Importance. Every.
body and particularly merchants. de.
sire to know what effect elections
may have on their business. There
isoue fact very certain if,you elect
To-Day your Staple Drugs, Oils, and
Diamond Dyes, from Budwell g.
Chgiatisn, Druggists, Roanoke, Va,
you will never regret your choice, for
it will pay you to do SO. Fifty per
cent. is q large amount to save but
you can save even more than that In
freight charges, and at tue same time
Z buy your goods at Northern prices.
The attention of physicians is espe;
.cially directed to our new preparation
Budwell's Emulsion of Norwegian
Cod Liver Oil. combined with the
I6dides. It is now being sold i'll
ssthFee or four states and in q short
while will be sold,iaes many more.
Tho preparation can BIO seen in al
iAost any drug store in Southwest
Virginia. Descriptive pamphlet and
sample sent on application to Bud
:well& Christian, Wholesale Drug
gists:. Roanoke, Va.
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Feeding ON Imagination.

Poor Tutor: "Know you what / do
when 1 hunger have2 Thon draw I 1T
homo on my slate with chalk n white
sausigo. Whom I right severe hunger
have. draw / two. Then drink / from
my mug of beer, eat a pleca OF bread
and ruD from Tho sAusng5 on tho siuto a
piece away. Then drink again, cat
again a piece bread and rub again from
tho sausage n piece saway--tlll tho last
morsef away ia; so picture myself In
It have the .snusage really eaten. be-
hold yofit Is all only imaginable Ion ON tho
world."-lFliegende Batter. 49,
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Notice is hereby given that meet
ing of the Board of Directors :of the
Tazewell Coal and Iron Coz will be
held at the law office of A. J. &c s. D.
May at Tazewell @. H, Va, on Tues.
day the 31at daH;of May, 1887.
FRANK HuasR,r President.
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For SAlE.-A Steam Saw Mill with
H.. P. Mounted Engine capable of
making s,OnO to 10000 feet of luin.
,bet per day. Also a Pony Planer,
-(2l i'm also Corn Mill, all of which
can be attached to the above mill.
II will either sell outright, or cav on
shares with a responsible party who
has, or can secure, a large quantity
of timber accessible to the proposed
new n. r. line, or saw BY the thou
sand. The said mill is now located
ut Blacks ford Russell county, where
il. can be seen, or information given
by DANIEL M. WILLIAMS, :
Rosednle, We.
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81 Notice ia hereby given that's meet,
ing Of the stockholders of the Taze-
well Coal g. Iron Go. will be held at
the law Office of a. J. & s. d. May,
at farewell G. H., Va. on Tuesday
the;31st day Of Mey, 1887.
8. D. MAY,
j. v. KELLY,
&; d. n. BhRqER,
4s A. j. MaY;s
/ ). q. WxTTs,
~ SnAs B: HuRT,
FRANK9 HudER,
Gro. w. GILLESPIE,
sSs sJosEpH s. GILLEsrlE,